Panel rejects live table games at Indiana racinos

10:43 PM,
Mar. 20, 2013

In January, Jim Brown, president and chief operating officer of Centaur Inc., which operates Hoosier Park Racing and Casino in Anderson, told the Senate Public Policy Committee that the bill to allow table games at racinos is necessary to protect Indiana casinos against out-of-state competition.

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Gambling advocates were dealt a setback Wednesday by a House committee that rejected efforts to allow table games with live dealers at horse-track racinos and let riverboat casinos move their gambling to land.

Local governments that depend on casino revenues, though, were happy about one change: The House Public Policy Committee restored the state's 11-year-old guarantee that they get the same share of admissions tax cash that they got in 2002. The Senate had ended that promise, saying it had cost Indiana $40 million in the last budget.